Meaning not yet researched.
Arliss: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,362 in 1933.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,362 in 1933; #4,410 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Arliss in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,410 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1933, at #1,362.
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Arliss: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,362 in 1933 · most boys in one year: 26 (2023).
In 2025, 23 US boys were named Arliss, making it the 4,410th most common boys’ name of the year, up 307 places from #4,717 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 21 boys named Arliss in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,362, reached in 1933. The most boys given the name in a single year was 26, in 2023. For comparison, it was #9,652 in 2015 and #2,782 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Arliss in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,052, reached in 1933. That year also had the most girls given the name: 44. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #2,783 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arliss in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 8 babies. In all, 1,529 US babies have been given the name, 52% of them girls and 48% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 495 babies named Arliss.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 161 US boys were named Arliss; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 74,264 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Arlis (2,769 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Arliss in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 23 | #4,410 |
| 2024 | — | — | 21 | #4,717 |
| 2023 | — | — | 26 | #4,120 |
| 2022 | — | — | 16 | #5,652 |
| 2021 | — | — | 15 | #5,791 |
| 2020 | — | — | 17 | #5,250 |
| 2019 | — | — | 11 | #7,213 |
| 2018 | — | — | 10 | #7,660 |
| 2017 | — | — | 13 | #6,355 |
| 2016 | — | — | 9 | #8,201 |
| 2015 | — | — | 7 | #9,652 |
| 2011 | — | — | 6 | #10,909 |
| 2008 | — | — | 9 | #8,369 |
| 2006 | — | — | 5 | #12,186 |
| 2005 | — | — | 6 | #10,226 |
| 2002 | — | — | 6 | #9,469 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #7,483 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #9,722 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #5,673 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,627 | — | — |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #5,786 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #6,791 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,377 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,338 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,313 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #5,842 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #5,897 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #4,834 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,069 | — | — |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,251 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,846 | — | — |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,069 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,884 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,432 | 9 | #2,880 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,060 | 6 | #3,638 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,555 | 15 | #2,098 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,501 | 9 | #2,805 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,084 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,682 | 7 | #3,187 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,119 | 10 | #2,542 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,381 | 7 | #3,107 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,734 | 9 | #2,672 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,783 | 8 | #2,782 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,008 | — | — |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,977 | 7 | #3,020 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,910 | 5 | #3,752 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,486 | 8 | #2,700 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,924 | 15 | #1,777 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,209 | — | — |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,951 | 9 | #2,569 |
| 1942 | 19 | #1,984 | 16 | #1,802 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,539 | 13 | #2,002 |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,965 | 7 | #2,891 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,737 | 12 | #2,063 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,654 | 19 | #1,564 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,633 | 9 | #2,488 |
| 1936 | 43 | #1,064 | 15 | #1,805 |
| 1935 | 32 | #1,270 | 20 | #1,544 |
| 1934 | 27 | #1,411 | 24 | #1,387 |
| 1933 | 44 | #1,052 | 24 | #1,362 |
| 1932 | 38 | #1,163 | 24 | #1,429 |
| 1931 | 33 | #1,259 | 15 | #1,931 |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,504 | 25 | #1,463 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,711 | 9 | #2,777 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,288 | 12 | #2,398 |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,100 | 9 | #2,920 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,673 | 9 | #2,918 |
| 1925 | 27 | #1,611 | 7 | #3,431 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,316 | 11 | #2,653 |
| 1923 | 19 | #2,026 | 13 | #2,341 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,837 | 12 | #2,496 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,480 | 8 | #3,228 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,847 | 5 | #4,189 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #2,968 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).